Manuscripts Image of the Month – the Illustrations of James McBryde
James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]
Continue reading »James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]
Continue reading »In 1894, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American born engineer and inventor of, amongst other things, the first machine gun, completed the construction of a ‘flying […]
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for April. It can be viewed on their website here.
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for March. It can be found on their webpage.
Continue reading »Strange goings-on and mysterious occurrences have been reported as taking place in the drawing room of Leckhampton House in the university town of Cambridge. Loud rappings […]
Continue reading »Over the last five years the Manuscripts department has been running a retrospective cataloguing project with the aim of creating a comprehensive on-line catalogue for […]
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have added a new image to their Image of the Month feature. Night Work at Greenwich Observatory, a hand-coloured print by William […]
Continue reading »A particularly prescient manuscript for this year has recently been added to Janus, the online catalogue for Cambridge archives and manuscripts. MS Add. 6185 is […]
Continue reading »Alma Crimea Sep th 21st My dear Father, I have hardly a moment, but take the present opportunity of letting you know that all is […]
Continue reading »Recently added to the online catalogue of the Library’s Additional manuscripts on the Janus website are two collections of papers relating to Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), […]
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